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This is the blog bit. There’s a tag cloud down below. New posts tend to be announced on Twitter, @jonathan229 and Instagram, manturing, and the pictures are collecting in a puddle at Pinterest, but for image sources and copyright details where known there’s a list here.
Banana splits and pathetic fallacies
More perverse Manchester pleasures.
Abandoned trams and bitcoin railways.
On the men who started the witchhunt, and the homophobia still present in Cambridge.
A Bletchley Park secret: they wasted their women.
They might drop a suitcase on your head. If they’re J Robert Oppenheimer.
A mini-meditation on the attraction — and grotesquery — of Turing artefacts.
Bertha Swirles, Phyllis Lockett, Cicely Popplewell, Audrey Bates, and Mary Lee Woods. Did Manchester University computing did first create and then lose female expertise?
Paul Nash’s brand of southern English surrealism has had a resurgence in the last few years. But he was never neglected, and a 1948 Nash exhibition in Manchester was one of the visual highlights of the city, according to one of Turing’s closest friends.
There’s a thrill in first reading Patrick Blackett’s MI5 file, because it has big red ‘SECRET’ stamps on it. But it also tells the story of a colossal misjudgement.
Manchester bus fog tricycle. That’s all.
Alan Turing’s Manchester has been many years in the making. My intention is to use this blog as a way of sharing some of the material that didn’t make it into the book. So it’s appropriate to start with an image I first saw 30 years ago, in King’s College Cambridge, and didn’t understand. I still don’t quite understand it…
